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A chat window that takes multiple seconds to respond, versus your buddy Guy who just went out on lunch.

Non-deterministic behavior from your chatbot, like how the visual design artist's client keeps sending back and forth emails asking for it to "pop" more

the difference is, that a model is literally just numbers.

proprietary software is data and code, and while it's true that code is data, the difference is that some data is intended to be for control flow, while in a model it is all the same stuff.

You can point to any single part of an LLM's model and say "this here is a weight" but if you point to any single part of a binary file you will have no idea what you're looking at.

And yes, you could decompile the binary, but that still doesn't give you the entire picture, and all proprietary software does the shady shit on servers these days anyway so you're not even going to find anything interesting.

however, you can test the model, by asking it things. What are you concerned is hiding inside of that big block of numbers? Order 66?

a low stress tolerance and a highly sensitized stress reaction can often look the same. If someone is hurt repeatedly in the same way, they will react when a stimuli that reminds them of it comes near. Similarly, people who are constantly stressed out often develop things like "learned helplessness", where they are incapable of solving their problems because they've failed, been rejected, or told no so many times that they stop trying.

Wow! The future is parallel.

Increasingly, the "what do we have the most of?" questions will return "RAM" less and less often.

make it multiplayer, I dare ya >:)

(if you need this kind of motivation)

I have like 40 projects that are 80% complete. I've been doing this in my spare time instead of a job.

I wasn't trying to make a product. I was practicing. Please hire me?

This is the most brilliant thing I've read all year. That note at the bottom... Amazing.

if it's the lowest level available, then it's as close to "native" as we can get, so therefore it has to qualify, if we want to consider anything at all to be running "natively"

Um... Are you referring to WSL? Wouldn't that be the linux kernel running under windows?

> There is the Von Neumann method of generating an unbiased coin from a biased coin. Of throwing it twice, and checking if you got HT or TH. And completely discarding all HH or TT results. It doesn't matter if the coin you are using is 20% or 80%, the result will be a true 50/50.

This blew my mind. Thank you!

I had to think about it a bit, so for anyone scratching their head right now trying to figure it out, consider it this way:

what matters is the ordering, of heads-then-tails, or tails-then-heads.

It doesn't matter that it's biased one way or the other, if you keep flipping pairs until you get a result with two different values, it's a 50/50 chance whether the less-likely result comes first, or second.

You might only have a 20% chance of any particular pair having a tails (for example), but in the cases where you do have a tails, it's a 50/50 chance that it comes first or second.

I had this idea for a "drill" that I'd like to make someday.

Basically it was a box with several tentacles snaking out of it. The tentacles would each have a drill on the end, and they would dig holes in a surface. These holes would be spaced apart and they would be on the outer edge of where the tunnel is meant to be. The silicon arms would be full of actuators that measured their resistance in terms of the momentum they want plus the gravity weight of any nodes after them.

After drilling around the surface, they'd turn (hence tentacles) and tunnel inward. Then, a big hammer or other impact would hit the main surface (after ensuring there were no tentacles below) and the shock of the impact would significantly reduce the amount of rock to carve through.

I really want to know why this wouldn't work, but I'm a designer, not an engineer, and I don't feel like making products. gee I sure wish I knew a bunch of engineers who would make this for me or at least tell me why it wouldn't work so I could use it sometime. Oh sorry for wanting there to be tunnels in every city on earth so we didn't have to destroy woodland to build suburban cities at such a gorgeous rate, I'm just a forest witch who doesn't fit in with startup founders and product engineers. gee wish there was a market fit for me.

"we don't have to dig through the rocks, just dig around the big ones and let them fall free" every digger knows this

I don't want the world, sounds like people would start bothering me all the time. I'd never get a moment to relax. But if I had the world, I'd do better with it than what we got.

because they're not selling drinks, they're selling stimulants

so, basically, anthropic is rolling their own version of whatever secret models the military is working with. and they're licensing it to network security firms?

If a kid lives on their own but their mom buys them groceries once per month and their dad swings by on thursdays with pizza and beer, that kid's still pretty darn self sufficient.

Similarly, if a country can use 80% less oil or imported fuel than they would have without renewable energy, I think they're pretty self-sufficient. They don't have to be isolated from trade, it's okay to import some things and export others. Energy sources can be one of those things. But if they rely on energy imports, then when something disrupts their supply then they are in trouble. However if they get 80% of their energy from renewable sources, then they have significantly less of a problem.

It could be an issue of discoverability too. Maybe they just haven't found the to-do app that does what they want, and it's easier to just... make one from scratch.

This logic assumes that 35% of Americans WANT to rent their home. Which seems odd to me, if only for financial reasons - why would you pay 1400$ for a 1 bedroom apartment when you could pay 700$ in a mortgage for that same apartment if you could have bought it?

And yet, gentrification.

This is great! Two things I noticed immediately:

the settings window overlaps with the minimap.

I think it'd be neat if you could zoom? The reason I'd use this over a tiling window manager is to fit more terminals on a screen at once. I think if there was a capability like the Strategic Zoom in Supreme Commander (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJY7exr9KU) it would be much easier to manage many terminals at once, and take advantage of the infinite canvas.

The children of soldiers are not legitimate military targets.

> ... in my opinion, the school was deliberately targeted because the students studying there were mostly the children of Iranian military officials. ...

Your opinion is wrong. There is no possibility of that being the justification for choosing a target. The American armed forces are too professional to do such a thing. Terror is not in our toolbox.

Water is free, it comes from the sky.

energy is free, it comes from the sun.

cotton is free, it grows from the ground.

plastic is not free, there will never be more of it. I think that resolves the equation.

(this is an oversimplification obviously but I wanted to reframe it from "how much of our current resources does this action use" to "how much of our TOTAL resources does this action use")

try asking claude to write in VB6. Make some Active Server Pages. Use COM components. Why not? We can do things "better" now, but what does that matter when you can do the same things as before, but better?